skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (1) and (2) have the usual "who watches the watchers?" problems,

Since we already deal with “who watches the watchers” problems in our current system, I see no problem here.

> And even without those issues, who wants to have do this level of research? Yeah, I know, libertarian nerds (meant with all possible respect). But almost nobody else.

Anyone who wants a good physician.

> Part of the point (not all of it, to be sure) of things like the AMA, the FDA and other governmental regulation is to make people's lives simpler. Stop worrying about whether the doctor you're going to see has even met a basic level of medical qualification, and focus on whether you like their personality and approach, for example.

If those things worked, this would be a point. Currently people can’t even afford to go to medical school, or afford to see a doctor, and when they get past the gatekeepers they are so desparate to get treatment that they can’t really even fathom rejecting a doctor because of a poor bedside manner.
GameStop Gains for One Redditor
> I really think they should have put more thought into the timing of this decision; a lot of users are going to be upset and will suddenly start to realize that a single company has a monopoly on their online social life (this may seem like an exaggeration, but it feels quite true to me colloquially, especially if you're a younger US male and/or play video games).

What? I have never used Discord.

If you think that a company has a monopoly on your social life, that's on you. There are lots of chat services There's even gasp email, and double gasp group texts.

The problem here isn't that we need a new decentralized system, the problem is that people are too lazy to use the decentralization we have today.
At least we can still talk
You don't even need them to coordinate extremely well. This isn't some sophisticated group with plans, this is a bunch of randos making jokes on the internet. If you have a large enough starting pool (like say a subreddit with 3 million followers), you've got a pretty big force even if it's just a small fraction of them buying a single stock for the lulz. And once the price starts moving up, even more will join in without you asking. If all of those people are using their play money then they aren't getting hurt at all.

But with that said, u/DeepFuckingValue started his YOLO over a year ago- he was super committed and it finally came around. How many other idiots did something similar and went bankrupt? How many will try it because they saw it happen this time?
> based on vehicle VIN transmitted through the cable

I thought Tesla used the car's wireless connection to handle authorization and billing?
I do not think pension funds and mutual funds short GME I mean hope not.
This is a very, very recent tactic, we’re yet to see if any of these companies (hello Redis Labs) survive after their land grabs.
Does the President owe us a response? Way way bigger fish to fry right now than GameStonks.
It may not be said eloquently or politely, but assuming you know better than people because you don't like the language they use sounds elitist to me.

That said, choosing who you do and don't interact with is your own business. Perhaps "I know I know more than them because they use homophobic slurs" isn't the strongest reason though, as one does not always map to the other
And provided the spark that caused the Clean Water Act to pass. Impossible to imagine something similar today.
I know, but it is a ghost town there now compared to the old 8chan.
Wow, I better start buying Dexcom.
Indeed. In many cases, you can get far just by looking at post and comment history. You can tell what town they live in and see screenshots of their texts and FB posts (albeit with names and faces blurred).
That was a rhetorical statement. The same reason you don't need global objects in an OO language is the reason you don't need global data structures in an imperative or functional one.

Your Sword class doesn't hold a reference to a NetState object, but then, my Sword struct doesn't need a reference to a NetState struct, either.

If I were to climb the reference hierarchies back to my 'main' function, I would find a common ancestor, just like in OO if I were to climb my reference hierarchies, I would get back to the class with my 'main' method. But that doesn't imply global state; it's all scoped down in the code where I defined and use it.
Ask HN: Is there any reason to submit negative feedback on a performance review?
For feedback either about myself or my coworkers, I can't imagine a good reason to submit something less than neutral in a performance review. As covered in a previous thread [1], these seem to be entirely a CYA move from the corporation's perspective or for HR to have reason to fire someone. Unless you are trying to get a coworker or yourself fired, what's the point?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17248630
Institutions that had child abuse given 7 years to avoid redress
Slater and Gordon Principal Lawyer Nick Hart said it was disgraceful that the Federal Government had given institutions another seven years to avoid their responsibilities to support survivors of horrific abuse.

Mr Hart said the scheme needed to be looking at delivering recognition and treatment for survivors who were waiting in limbo, at the very least, to enable them to be supported.
I agree. But really the security best practice is to remove setuid from all binaries, and rely on RBAC rules (such as with SELinux). That would solve more security issues than anything else, but this is way more effort than most people are willing to invest in security.
Why use analogies? This one is wrong. Talk about short lending mechanics.
> Go sit in an uncomfortable chair, in an uncomfortable location, and stare at an uncomfortably small screen with an uncomfortably outdated web browser. How easy is it to use the websites you’ve created?

This is such a quotable paragraph. It also reminds me of this:

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt
Net income over a long period of time is appropriate in my opinion. They consistently hover around 5% for 15+ years. It’s a pretty competitive market.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/UNH/unitedhealth-g...

I don’t see a lot of juice to squeeze in insurance companies in general.
The “new” one looked fake and bot-like. Good thing the old one came back.
>(He didn't make this argument as well as he could have, but Chamath himself points out that when Goldman or AIG played stupid games, everyone else was conscripted into being the "bag holders.")

This - this is the point that seems to keep getting lost. The Big Guys get bail-outs constantly - hell Melvin got a float of $3B over this mess.
Teaching it CTEs, subqueries, generic column identifiers (1,2,3), unions, left outer join, like, regexp, JSON, array, array_agg, concat, coelesce, trunc, etc. would be fun.

But something else humans can do is look at the data to construct patterns as another way to extract data. To some degree it requires some (bad) inductive reasoning approaches like “I’ll assume maybe most or all data in this column has this format.” “Oops, it didn’t, so let’s tweak it to look like this, to cover it sometimes also being empty string or null.”
Standardized, but with several standards up until CCS1 became the defacto choice for every new car [other than Tesla]. But the stations seem to be only reluctantly installed; so they come in small groups, poorly maintained, crappy interface, and in many cases brutally expensive. Some of that is because of local regulations on who can sell power by the kWh, so the charging companies had to use per-minute billing.

It's coming around, but it's rough around the edges. I have a Tesla and a Bolt, and supercharging is definitely superior. But we haven't really had any trouble with DC fast charging the Bolt, either, like some folks have.

In either case we only DC fast charge once every few months, 99% of the time we plug in at home with our own L2 outlet.
They are already front running these trades. Robinhood is free for a reason.
And you’re wrong. Email was the main selling point to get non-nerds online in the late 90s. It was how we got my mother in-law online, my uncles, and my non-techie friends.
https://reddit-wallstreetbets.com/

I have put together this new forum/communiy website where we could talk without being censored by reddit or other political interests. I know it is a small efort to create a new account, and start a conversation, but in a very short period of time, we will be free forever. Please share and bring all your friends. Enough is enough, we need to be in control of our lives and ideas.

https://reddit-wallstreetbets.com/

Please share and bring all your friends tomorrow.
We can move out of this and be in control of our lives
Mmm, pretty sure sea level carbs run rich at altitude. Less air means a need for less fuel for the same ratio. But the fuel side didn’t change because we didn’t rejet, so now too much gets pumped in. If I’m guessing the bikes might have seized at the bottom of the hill instead? Or it just took until the top before the damage was done.
Yes, tracking pixels aren't a thing (anymore).

Gmail no longer loads them. Thunderbird no longer loads them. Most providers, offering online email, have already caught on.

> Trust me, people will find ways around it without JS. Reinventing Flash, for a start.

There is no need for that. Why bother, when you can write a mobile app in proper computer language and eliminate the middleman (browser)?
I haven't the faintest clue what point you're trying to make but I'm sure it's very clever.
She didn't have to get knocked up at 16 and 18, from two different guys who aren't around anymore...
People not having sex is because they are too busy playing on computers and TV and internet instead of socializing in meatspace, not because women are to busy working to be fembots.
https://reddit-wallstreetbets.com/

I have put together this new forum/communiy website where we could talk without being censored by reddit or other political interests. I know it is a small efort to create a new account, and start a conversation, but in a very short period of time, we will be free forever. Please share and bring all your friends. Enough is enough, we need to be in control of our lives and ideas.
https://reddit-wallstreetbets.com/

Please share and bring all your friends tomorrow.

We can move out of this and be in control of our lives
> Doesn't it seem to you like something is fundamentally worse about politics now than it was 20 years ago?

Yeah, but this has nothing to do with social media in my estimation. It has everything to do with the elites of the world, but in particular, America, capturing most of the wealth that gets generated.

You can't have a middle class without an enormous amount of people making a healthy sum of money. In an ever-increasing desire to capture more of that wealth, there's were we ended up. Naturally the elites that are smart enough to realize this don't care, because they won't have to bear the consequences of these actions. They'll be dead and gone by the time it degenerates into a real problem, or they just expect to move to another nation, set up shop there, and repeat the cycle.

This is where a lot of people lose the plot. Its not a political problem - its made to look that way because that keeps scrutiny off the fact that its a financial problem. 47% of Americans living in poverty. Half the citizens of the richest nation in the world, live in poverty. That's laughable.

And if everyone's busy being gainfully employed, living a mostly fulfilling life, they don't have time to LARP as a MAGA Shaman. They're busy working, grilling some hamburgers and hotdogs and ribs in the backyard, drinking a cold beer while the kids play in the pool, and the reason I can tell you that's what they're doing, is because that's what me and mine do most weekends. I don't have time to go to D.C. and act like a jackass... when I'm not busy working, I'm busy with my hobby of building furniture, and when I'm not busy doing that, I'm in the gym, and when I'm not busy doing that, I'm off doing other shit.

But all that stuff is only possible if you've got a middle class salary. And the middle class has been asked to pay more than they can reasonably fork over, for entirely too long. Hard to take seriously the compliant of a multi-millionaire about the state of her tax bill of $4.8 million on her $11 million yearly salary, because scale matters. She can live in a $1m a year apartment in NYC, send her kids to private school that costs $40,000/yr, each, and still have, literally, millions left over for every thing else.

Meanwhile, the husband and wife making $60,000 a year as a nurse and $80,000 a year as an engineer end up with around $90,000 after taxes, if they're lucky. $7,500 a month. Two decent cars - $1000/mo. $2000/mo for a modest house in a decent part of town. Gotta throw a little something into savings, retirement, investment, etc., so knock out another $500. $1500 if they're really smart. Now we're down to $3000 and we haven't gotten to cell phones, Internet, car insurance, etc.

It adds up, and fast.

Maybe I'm just a little more jaded than you are... maybe I'm just old, and with age comes a lot of clarity about just how the world works. I'm angry, but I'm angry for the kids, not me. They're going to really bear the brunt of this, and it isn't just "unfair", its unconscionable.
And my.variable sounds Perlish.
I hope to see enough studies to convince people about the effectiveness of intermittent fasting, all natural and no side-effects.

https://www.amazon.com/Diabetes-Code-Prevent-Reverse-Natural...
Yet it wasn't an issue to them until this moment.
it's a side project of active OSS hero jpadilla https://github.com/jpadilla.

the service is active but he doesn't do marketing for it. he did talk about it on a podcast a couple months ago https://jpadilla.com/2020/01/10/podcast-djangochat-ep-45/
> social media is way newer than 20 years

Is it?

Facebook was founded in 2004; Myspace in 2003; Friendster in 2003; Livejournal in 1999; Blogger in 1999. All of those are social media. It's only the recommendation algorithms with engagement-optimizing feedback loops that are newer. It should not surprise anybody that these have become runaway AIs.
Exactly. We are in the middle of the story now. There always is the person who is last to sell and whoever that is stands to lose the most. It's pretty insane how sustained the rally is. You might expect it to effect prices for a day or even two thanks to the coordination until people catch on and sell, but this has been a sustained buy from various people for almost two weeks. That kind of holding power or more specifically willpower not to sell when the stock already went up 400% is what is really impressive. I wouldn't be surprised if by the end of this every single person that owns GME is from WallStreetBets. It's inevitable that at least some people from WallStreetBets gets hurt.
I think he sold a fair amount of it today. As for proselytizing, I'm pretty sure his initial position was met with ridicule.
This is great! Thanks for putting this together.
In both locations as well as total number of charging plugs, the non-Tesla networks have either already caught up, or surpassed Tesla. And their growth rate is higher.

I do like Tesla's plug a lot better though. Plugging in our Bolt sometimes feels like wrangling with USB-A, it's finicky to get lined up when it's dark & rainy. Tesla plug is much simpler. I wish the world could have standardized on that instead of the ginormous CCS1. Oh well.
Developing for email sucks – here's what I wish I knew before I started
fyi, the "hate speech" in question here is the fact that they were calling THEMSELVES "retards".
They also profit from creating the perception of fraud, filing spurious lawsuits and marketing against companies they are shorting.

Shorting is illegal in Australia, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal and a few other countries with large financial markets. The US has the most "open" policies on shorting in the world. Short selling was an extremely large contributor to the 1929 stock market crash.
Awesome question to ask.

Anecdotally in the financial industry, the corporate IT mindset is rampant even at supposedly “cutting-edge” algo trading shops. IT draws very bold boundary lines (no root access, unable to use new third-party libraries without a song and dance with InfoSec, locked down Windows machines that must SSH into Linux hosts for dev work, etc) and it sets the entire engineering culture.

This question will tell you about the culture as a whole, beyond how smooth/frustrating your developer experience will be. A good gauge for how modern or stale the stack is, whether continuous deployment exists, how top—down or bottom-up the culture is, etc.
An unpleasant sudo vulnerability
I'm not saying that your example isn't valid, but it's kind of different than what you are responding to.

Your short position may have been called, but (I am assuming) you didn't take out a short position with an explicit expiration date. Ie, it wasn't "due" on Friday, and you likely didn't know days/weeks in advance of when it was going to be called.
When was the last time you removed a dependency due to lint errors? How about your coworkers?
CVE-2021-3156: Sudo privilege escalation
Judging from the replies you're getting I think "field of research" was an important qualifier hahah
Something like that.

That's the big reason Moxie chose to use phone numbers. Piggyback off the pre existing social network from people's contact lists.

It's great for viral uptake, even if it's not as privacy preserving as a (way way) less usable "random identifier I chose" messenger like, say, Wickr. It's not a surprise that the two big names in all the discussion about WhatApp's Privacy Policy update and mass exodus were Telegram and Signal, with of which use phone numbers as social network kickstarters - instead of "I can choose any username I like but then nobody can find me and anybody could impersonate me" messengers like Wickr.
There are several free STUN services available, and you can fix a lot of connections with just STUN. STUN is just an IP lookup effectively, so it's very cheap to deploy.

TURN is of course an entirely different beast because it's proxying all the data between clients. It's also where some more complex video stuff happens potentially. The good news is that there are solid, open source TURN servers available to run on your own hardware. The downside is that running those servers for non-trivial amounts of clients gets pretty resource intensive pretty quick.
I always thought it meant doubling down.
Since no one replied with anything substantive yet, I looked around a bit to try and answer my own question. Nothing I've found from a hedge fund is even remotely close to crying foul... but here's a collection of quotes

Citron research (not a hedge fund, but one of the parties that had a large short position) put out the following video generally supporting redditors and wsb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS4yPsmaDDQ

Melvin Captital (Hedge fund that took a big hit), as far as I can tell, has not put out any substantial statement, but none of what I can find that they did put out is crying foul. Examples of what I can find include "The social media posts about Melvin Capital going bankrupt are categorically false", ""Melvin Capital has repositioned our portfolio over the past few days. We have closed out our position in GME (GameStop)"

The only statement I can find from Citadel (hedge fund that invested in Melvin) is from their CEO, saying "Gabe Plotkin and team have delivered exceptional results over the history of Melvin. We have great confidence in Gabe and his team".

Point72 (another hedge fund investing in Melvin to bail them out - and who already had $1 billion under management with Melvin) had their chairman say "I've known Gabe Plotkin since 2006 and he is an exceptional investor and leader. We are pleased to have the opportunity to invest additional capital and take a non-controlling revenue share in Melvin Capital,". I haven't found anything else.
The problem with GUIs (I assume you mean them by "actual user interfaces") is that they rely too much on the user's memory, and that they do not scale, especially for the cloud systems.

I have many text notes which record various commands. I have them because it is so easy -- once you figured out how to do something, get the history and copy relevant stuff. At work, we share the commands on Slack, put them into Wiki, paste them in the docs, and so on. If the commands grow too complex, they turn into scripts -- after all, scripts are just file rename away.

I don't think I could do this efficiently I had to use GUIs. Theoretically, I could write an manuals with dozens of steps[0], but this is much more significant effort, and they'll likely go stale anyway.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/application-frameworks/...
I think their point was that as only the most extreme users move to the new platform, the community forms around more extreme ideals each time.

For WSB I don't know what that means long term, what is an extreme trader?
Sqlski: Nested Relational Mapper(NRM) for Python
Measured how? I would argue that some of the finance industry contributes to GDP (e.g. derivatives that facilitate some kind of real capital investment that wouldn't have happened without them), but John Q. Billionaire shorting a stock because he thinks it will go down does not.
Your answer was far better than mine.

Thank you for this post.
One thing I’ve read is both a short squeeze and a gamma squeeze have never happened at the same time to this degree.

Is that true? I tried and failed to verify.
I love how Neal Stephenson predicted these spam bots in “Fall; or, Dodge In Hell”.
This is ignoring the fact that during the most prominent times WSB experienced prior to this, including when they crossed 1M subs, that was the main discord server the subreddit was linked to.

The other server is (or was) 100% more tame, and at the time experienced more traffic than the one that was just banned (obviously this changed once the link was removed).

There was no way you were going to find a mod spamming the n-word, in fact people were regularly banned for using slurs.

I mean being founded by the guy who was running the sub, it was in line with the subreddit, edgy, but with nuggets of clarity and an understanding that it's possible to take things too far.
Under a title of investigate there are two red buttons in front of a sweating SEC, one reads /r/wallstreetbets and the other ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Madoff
People are extremely bad at estimating how many people there are in crowds (respectively in pictures of crowds). Traditional media (newspapers, TV, etc.) tend to be pretty honest about it from my experience but on social medias pictures of protests are almost always instrumented to make it appear as though something had way more support than it actually has.

And I'm not talking about sligh misjugdments, I'm talking being off by one order of magnitude.
In your typical picture of a protest taken with a smartphone from a high-rise building there is at most 5 to 10k people in the shot. Yet you'll often find such pictures on social medias labeled "100s of thousands in the street protesting for [whatever]".

And for someone who's not particularily paying attention it's easy to be manipulated because we really have no frame of reference for what thousands of people look like, let alone tens or hundreds of thousands.
Sure, but irrational enough not to short a $6 stock priced at $300?
Short sellers are a necessary group of market participants for revealing fraud and putting downward pressure on stock prices. However, this particular short seller was clearly making foolish decisions and I see no reason that he shouldn't lose it all.